Job Description

At AstraZeneca, we work without barriers between functions at the cutting-edge of clinical science, it’s a place to rethink the future of medicine to answer some of the most complex unmet patient needs. That’s why we love it – this is the place to make a greater impact! We now offer the opportunity for a Physician to join our Clinical Innovation Team in the Translational Science & Experimental Medicine (TS&EM) department within Early Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism (CVRM) therapeutic area. The role will be at the Senior Director level. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work at the forefront of translational and early clinical research within CVRM. In a multidisciplinary & collaborative environment, you will play an important role in progressing a rich and diverse portfolio of investigational drugs in accordance with the TS&EM remit. Who We Are Early CVRM is accountable for the discovery and development of new medicines within three main strategic disease areas - cardiovascular/heart failure, metabolism and chronic kidney disease. In the Early CVRM TS&EM Department, we utilise innovative data science and well-phenotyped patient cohorts to accelerate the validation of drug targets in human disease; develop target-related biomarker strategies; generate precision medicine &/or patient segmentation hypotheses and establish the clinical line of sight & experimental medicine studies to support the development of investigational drugs within the rich Early CVRM portfolio. The role may be located at one of AstraZeneca’s vibrant R&D sites in Cambridge (United Kingdom) Gaithersburg or Boston (USA) or Gothenburg (Sweden).